Dogs are capable of using their nose for many tasks: hunting, retrieval, and finding that cookie crumb you dropped beneath the couch. Now we can add “mussel sniffing” to the list. The California ...

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Just about everybody knows that dogs are blessed with a superior sense of smell. As a matter of fact, their sense of smell is so sophisticated that humans, in comparison, are olfactory illiterates.

In recent years, a growing body of research has affirmed that dogs can smell when humans are stressed. A new study shows how it affects them. As many dog owners can attest, our stress is contagious.

Dogs can sniff out whether a human is stressed or relaxed, new research suggests, and that sensory feedback appears to influence canine emotions and choices. The dog doesn't even have to know the ...

Incredibly sensitive and intuitive, your dogs are always aware of how you’re feeling. If you’re a pet owner, you know that no matter what you’re doing, how busy you are, or how chaotic your life is, ...

This post was paid for by an advertiser. The Herald-Dispatch newsroom was not involved in its creation. Dogs live in a world that is guided by smell. What humans notice with their eyes, dogs often ...